Re: Star Trek Window Manager

David Wong (wong3@cooper.edu)
Thu, 20 Mar 1997 13:34:08 -0500 (EST)

does anyone have patches that would set limits on the number
of processes a user can have.
> >
> > Both hit the process limit pretty quickly, but the shell script
> > version kills the machine pretty much dead.
> >
> > No-one else can log in, Control-c doesn't work, and when I try
> > Ctrl-Alt-Delete, the system takes about five minutes to get to
> > "Shutting down gpm services: ", and does nothing after that.
> > (Well, I waited 15 minutes, and gave up and hit the reset button.)
> >
> > It seems to me that this may be something to do with the fact that
> > the processes are respawning faster than init can kill them.
> >
> > Perhaps init should be modified to send the a SIGSTOP before
> > SIGTERM/SIGKILL. This would (might?) solve this problem.
> >
> > Matthew.
> >
> > --
> > Matthew Kirkwood | Mail: weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk
> > LMH JCR, | Web: http://www-jcr.lmh.ox.ac.uk/~weejock/
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> >
> >
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David Wong